The world could be divided very simply into two distinct groups of people. There are people who you can trust to get things done, and there are people you can’t. All of us have a myriad of things to do each day in our personal and professional lives. How we prioritize these items and get [...]

I got the CNN Alert on my iPad when the news broke out yesterday. Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, dies at 56. This is a news that I wasn’t prepared for. And then my iPhone rang and I had family and friends sharing their shock on his passing away. Working on my MacBook Pro, I [...]

Sitting in my office, around 4pm yesterday the news came out. Internet started flooding with it , speculations on market started and my finance news alerts went off the hook at a rate I had never seen. In that moment, I was left with the thought, Steve Jobs had transformed the world. Many thanks Steve [...]

Most of us start thinking about how to market games, once we receive the sacred message from Apple “Your App has been approved”. And at that moment, we confront the thought “Now how am I going to market the App”. If that is the case, it might be too late to market it already. With [...]

Poker is a game that attracts the hard core gamer. Most people who play this game don’t care if their friends are there with them. They are OK to play with total strangers. And that defeats the primary reason why people play on FB – to connect with their friends. In a recent visit to [...]

Mobile gaming space is getting really heated. With that comes a lot of excitement and challenge. Excitement because there is a visible opportunity to make a lot of money (Mobile gaming market will be a $13B market in 2014, source Mercel). Challenge because now everyone wants a piece of the pie BUT only the best [...]

There are so many new techniques of marketing evolving constantly and with mobile coming to the marketing mix – the excitement is to integrate mobile marketing to your mix. And with the excitement comes a new challenge – how are we going to do this? I remember the time when Facebook came around and suddenly [...]

I recently attended Adtech in San Francisco, a digital marketing conference in US. And some of the insights I got from speaking to industry experts and thought leaders validated my initial perception that mobile marketing and M-commerce is at the onset of taking off here in the US and in Asia with Japan being the [...]

Indian cricket is very glamorous but behind it there are some aspects we don’t pay attention to. It includes players who couldn’t make it to the top eleven, some great cricketers who had to make a choice between playing or getting a job because of life situations and even those who could not convince their [...]

Telecom has been a passion of mine. And as a Electronics and Communication engineer, I have been part of many ground breaking events in the industry. I was part of the advent of wireless in India and worked on the roll out of the GSM technology. And then worked with the giants in Telecom, like [...]